Mobile station, base station, and communication control method

ABSTRACT

A mobile station configured to perform radio communication using spatial multiplexing with a base station, the mobile station including: a controller configured to select a data unit with highest channel quality, and to select a spatial layer with highest reception quality belonging to the selected data unit; and a transmitter configured to transmit spatial coding information and first identification information to the base station, the spatial coding information corresponding to the number of spatial layers, and the first identification information identifying the spatial layer selected, and a layer indicator to determine a precoding matrix.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is a continuation application of U.S. application Ser.No. 14/869,357 filed on Sep. 29, 2015, which is a continuationapplication of International Application PCT/JP2013/060381, filed onApr. 4, 2013, and designating the U.S., the entire contents of each areincorporated herein by reference.

FIELD

The present invention relates to a mobile station, a base station, and acommunication control method.

BACKGROUND

Conventionally, in a radio communication system to which long termevolution (LTE) is applied, a communication controlling procedurereferred to as closed-loop precoding is used in down link (DL) from abase station (eNB: eNodeB) to a mobile station (UE: User Equipment). Inthe closed-loop precoding, the base station uses spatial multiplexing tosimultaneously transmit a plurality of data streams and rank adaptationto adaptively control the number of data streams (spatial layers)(transmission ranks) to be spatially multiplexed together to form adirectional beam by multi antenna. The mobile station selects an optimalone from a precoding matrix defined for each rank to feed back to thebase station.

Specifically, in the closed-loop precoding, the mobile station feedsback channel state information (CSI) indicating a channel state to thebase station. The above-described CSI includes a rank indicator (RI)indicating a recommended transmission rank, a precoding matrix indicator(PMI) indicating a recommended precoding matrix, and a channel qualityindicator (CQI) indicating radio channel quality when theabove-described RI and PMI are assumed. When the base station receivesthe above-described CSI from the mobile station, this applies theprecoding matrix determined based on the above-described RI and PMI toUE-specific reference signals (RS) and a physical downlink sharedchannel (PDSCH) to transmit to the mobile station. The mobile stationwhich receives the above-described precoding matrix demodulates thePDSCH by using a channel estimation value based on the UE-specific RS.

As described above, a conventional CSI feedback method assumes PDSCHtransmission to which single user-multiple input multiple output(SU-MIMO) being spatial multiplexing technology of signals to one mobilestation is applied. Therefore, the base station selects a rank accordingto the radio channel quality and the precoding matrix for the rankputting importance on transmission efficiency to one mobile station onthe assumption that reliability is assured by retransmission control.

Non Patent Document 1: IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access WorkingGroup Closed Loop MIMO Precoding (2004 Nov. 4),http://www.ieee802.org/16/tge/contrib/C80216e-04_293r2.pdf

However, technology of dynamically switching between the above-describedSU-MIMO and MU-MIMO (multiple user-multiple input multiple output) beingspatial multiplexing technology of signals to a plurality of mobilestations is recently developed. Technology of applying the closed-loopprecoding to an EPDCCH (enhanced physical downlink control channel)supporting the spatial multiplexing in addition to conventional timemultiplexing is also developed. Therefore, expansion of the CSI feedbackmethod from the mobile station to the base station is desired in orderto keep line with the technology.

A feedback method of a multiple CSI process is suggested, for example,as a new CSI feedback method. In such method, the mobile station hascodebook subset restriction for each CSI process and feeds back the CSIwithin a range of the RI and PMI restricted according to a bitmapindicated by a higher layer. As an application example, the mobilestation feeds back the CSI assuming the SU-MIMO of the recommended rankof a connected cell in a CSI process 1. The mobile station feeds backthe CSI assuming the MU-MIMO and the EPDCCH of a rank 1 of the connectedcell in a CSI process 2. Furthermore, the mobile station feeds back theCSI assuming the MU-MIMO and the EPDCCH of a rank 2 of the connectedcell in a CSI process 3.

In this manner, in the above-described CSI feedback method, the mobilestation transmits the CSI (for example, 12 bits) two or three times aslarge as conventional one to the base station though system performanceis improved. Overhead of control information transmitted by the mobilestation to the base station at the time of the CSI feedbacksignificantly increases with this.

SUMMARY

According to an aspect of the embodiments, a mobile station isconfigured to perform radio communication using spatial multiplexingwith a base station. The mobile station includes a selecting unit and atransmitting unit. The selecting unit selects a data unit with highestchannel quality from a plurality of data units and selects a spatiallayer with highest reception quality from spatial layers belonging tothe data unit. The transmitting unit transmits identificationinformation of the spatial layer selected by the selecting unit to thebase station as control information.

The object and advantages of the invention will be realized and attainedby means of the elements and combinations particularly pointed out inthe claims.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description andthe following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and arenot restrictive of the invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of amobile station;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a functional configuration of abase station;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of themobile station;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of thebase station;

FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram for illustrating operation of the mobilestation and the base station;

FIG. 6 is a view for illustrating a process in which a precodingdetermining unit of the base station determines a precoding matrix foreach rank from a transmission symbol of each antenna;

FIG. 7 is a view for illustrating a process in which a CSI calculatingunit of the mobile station determines an LI based on a transmission rankand a code word;

FIG. 8 is a view illustrating the number of bits of the LI for eachtransmission rank;

FIG. 9 is a view illustrating control information for precodingaccording to an embodiment for each CSI process; and

FIG. 10 is a view illustrating control information for precodingaccording to a variation for each CSI process.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

An embodiment of a mobile station, a base station, and a communicationcontrol method disclosed in the present application is hereinafterdescribed in detail with reference to the drawings. Meanwhile, themobile station, the base station, and the communication control methoddisclosed in the present application are not limited by the followingembodiment.

A configuration of a mobile station (UE) according to one embodimentdisclosed in the present application is first described. FIG. 1 is ablock diagram illustrating a functional configuration of a mobilestation 10. As illustrated in FIG. 1, the mobile station 10 includes areception radio frequency (RF) unit 11, a fast Fourier transform (FFT)unit 12, a channel estimating unit 13, a CSI calculating unit 14, acontrol signal demodulating unit 15, a data signal demodulating unit 16,a control signal generating unit 17, an inversed fast Fourier transform(IFFT) unit 18, and a transmission RF unit 19. The components areconnected to one another so as to be able to unidirectionally orbidirectionally input/output signals and data.

The reception RF unit 11 performs conversion from a radio frequency to abase band, orthogonal demodulation, and A/D (analog to digital)conversion on a signal received from a base station 20. The FFT unit 12detects FFT timing from the signal received by the reception RF unit 11,removes a CP (cyclic prefix) therefrom, and performs FFT processingthereon. The channel estimating unit 13 extracts UE-specific RS beingreference signals for demodulating data from the received signal afterthe FFT processing. The channel estimating unit 13 calculates a channelestimation value from cross correlation between the UE-specific RS and aknown reference signal.

The CSI calculating unit 14 extracts channel state information(CSI)-reference signals (RS) being reference signals for measuringchannel quality from the received signal after the FFT processing. TheCSI calculating unit 14 calculates a channel estimation value beingradio channel distortion represented by a complex number from crosscorrelation between the CSI-RS and a known reference signal.Furthermore, the CSI calculating unit 14 selects a rank and a precodingmatrix for SU-MIMO by using the channel estimation value, and thereafterdetermines an RI and a PMI based on the values. The CSI calculating unit14 specifies a CQI of each code word assuming the determined RI and PMIand determines a layer indicator (LI) based on the CQI and a receptionsignal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) of each layer. Herein, thecode word is a unit of coding bit string regarding the data transmittedon PDSCH and the data transmitted in one sub frame is divided up to twocode words according to the rank.

The control signal demodulating unit 15 extracts a control signal fromthe received signal after the FFT processing and performs channelcompensation by using the above-described channel estimation value. Thecontrol signal demodulating unit 15 restores transmission formatinformation such as an applied rank as the control information byperforming data demodulation and error correction decoding. The datasignal demodulating unit 16 extracts a data signal from the receivedsignal after the FFT processing and performs the channel compensation byusing the above-described channel estimation value. The data signaldemodulating unit 16 restores an information bit by performing the datademodulation and the error correction decoding based on theabove-described transmission format information.

The control signal generating unit 17 performs error correction coding,data modulation and the like on control information including the CSI(such as the above-described RI, PMI, CQI, and LI) of a cell to whichthe mobile station 10 is connected. The IFFT unit 18 executes IFFTprocessing on the signal transmitted to the base station 20 and adds theCP thereto. The transmission RF unit 19 performs digital to analog (D/A)conversion, orthogonal modulation, and conversion from the base band tothe radio frequency on the signal to be transmitted.

A configuration of the base station (eNB) according to one embodimentdisclosed in the present application is next described. FIG. 2 is ablock diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the basestation 20. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the base station 20 includes ascheduler unit 21, a data signal generating unit 22, a control signalgenerating unit 23, a precoding determining unit 24, a UE-specific RSgenerating unit 25, and precoding processors 26 a, 26 b, and 26 c. Thebase station 20 also includes a CSI-RS generating unit 27, a physicalchannel multiplexing unit 28, an IFFT unit 29, a transmission RF unit210, a reception RF unit 211, a FFT unit 212, and a control signaldemodulating unit 213. The components are connected to one another so asto be able to unidirectionally or bidirectionally input/output signalsand data.

The scheduler unit 21 assigns frequency resources to each mobile stationconnected to the base station 20 and selects the transmission format(such as the applied rank). The data signal generating unit 22 performsthe error correction coding and the data modulation on the data inputfrom the scheduler unit 21. The control signal generating unit 23performs the error correction coding and the data modulation on thecontrol information including the transmission format information suchas the applied rank. The precoding determining unit 24 determines theprecoding matrix for the SU-MIMO based on the RI and the PMI reportedfrom the mobile station 10 and determines the precoding matrices forranks 1 and 2 based on the CQI and the LI. The precoding determiningunit 24 outputs each precoding matrix corresponding to the PDSCH andEPDCCH of a MIMO format (SU-MIMO or MU-MIMO) determined by the schedulerunit 21 to each of precoding processors 26 a, 26 b, and 26 c. TheUE-specific RS generating unit 25 generates the above-describedUE-specific RS. Each of the precoding processors 26 a, 26 b, and 26 cexecutes precoding processing based on each precoding matrix input fromthe precoding determining unit 24.

The CSI-RS generating unit 27 generates the above-described CSI-RS. Thephysical channel multiplexing unit 28 performs frequency multiplexing ofphysical channels. The IFFT unit 29 executes the IFFT processing on thesignal transmitted to the mobile station 10 and adds the CP thereto. Thetransmission RF unit 210 performs the D/A conversion, the orthogonalmodulation, and the conversion from the base band to the radio frequencyon the signal to be transmitted. The reception RF unit 211 performs theconversion from the radio frequency to the base band, the orthogonaldemodulation, and the A/D conversion on the signal received from themobile station 10. The FFT unit 212 detects the FFT timing from thesignal received by the reception RF unit 211, removes the CP therefrom,and performs the FFT processing thereon. The control signal demodulatingunit 213 extracts the control signal and DM-RS of up-link notillustrated from the received signal after the FFT processing andperforms the channel compensation by using the channel estimation valueobtained from the above-described DM-RS. The control signal demodulatingunit 213 restores the CSI (such as the above-described RI, PMI, CQI, andLI) reported from the mobile station 10 as the above-described controlinformation by performing the data demodulation and error correctiondecoding.

The mobile station 10 is realized by a portable terminal such as acellular phone and a smartphone, for example. FIG. 3 is a block diagramillustrating a hardware configuration of the mobile station 10. Asillustrated in FIG. 3, the mobile station 10 includes a centralprocessing unit (CPU) 10 a, a memory 10 b, an RF circuit 10 c includingan antenna A1, and a display device 10 d such as a liquid crystaldisplay (LCD) and an electroluminescence (EL) as hardware. The memory 10b is a random access memory (RAM) such as a synchronous dynamic randomaccess memory (SDRAM), a read only memory (ROM), and a flash memory, forexample. Components other than the reception RF unit 11 and thetransmission RF unit 19 out of functional components illustrated in FIG.1 are realized by an integrated circuit such as the CPU 10 a, forexample, regarding correspondence relationship between the functionalconfiguration and the hardware configuration. The reception RF unit 11and the transmission RF unit 19 are realized by the RF circuit 10 c.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of thebase station 20. As illustrated in FIG. 4, the base station 20 includesa digital signal processor (DSP) 20 a, a field programmable gate array(FPGA) 20 b, a memory 20 c, a radio frequency (RF) circuit 20 d, and anetwork inter face (IF) unit 20 e as hardware components. The DSP 20 aand the FPGA 20 b are connected to each other so as to be able toinput/output various signals and data through the network IF unit 20 esuch as a switch. The RF circuit 20 d includes antennas A2 and A3. Thememory 20 c is a RAM such as an SDRAM, a ROM, and a flash memory, forexample. Components other than the transmission RF unit 210 and thereception RF unit 211 out of functional components illustrated in FIG. 2are realized by an integrated circuit such as the DSP 20 a, the FPGA 20b and the like, for example, regarding correspondence relationshipbetween the functional configuration and the hardware configuration. Thetransmission RF unit 210 and the reception RF unit 211 are realized bythe RF circuit 20 d.

Operation is next described. FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram forillustrating the operation of the mobile station 10 and the base station20.

First, when the CSI calculating unit 14 of the mobile station 10receives the CSI-RS from the base station 20 (S1), this determines therank, the precoding matrix, and the layer for the SU-MIMO by using theCSI-RS (S2).

At S3, the transmission RF unit 19 of the mobile station 10 transmitsthe RI and the PMI indicating the rank and the precoding matrixdetermined at S2 to the base station 20 in a CSI process #1. Meanwhile,the mobile station 10 may transmit the CQI indicating the radio channelquality when the above-described RI and PMI are assumed together at S3.

At S4, the transmission RF unit 19 of the mobile station 10 transmitsthe LI indicating the layer determined at S2 to the base station 20 inCSI processes #2 and #3. Meanwhile, the mobile station 10 may transmitthe CQI indicating the radio channel quality when the above-described LIis assumed together at S4.

At S5, the precoding determining unit 24 of the base station 20determines the precoding for the SU-MIMO by using the above-described RIand PMI received in the CSI process #1 at S3 and determines theprecoding for the MU-MIMO and the precoding for the EPDCCH by using theabove-described LI received in the CSI processes #2 and #3 at S4.

At S6, the scheduler unit 21 of the base station 20 performs userscheduling based on the precoding for the SU-MIMO and precoding for theMU-MIMO determined by the precoding determining unit 24 at S5. That isto say, the scheduler unit 21 determines the MIMO format (SU-MIMO)applied to the PDSCH to the mobile station 10.

At S7, the base station 20 applies the precoding for the EPDCCHcalculated from the above-described RI, PMI, and LI to the EPDCCH andthe UE-specific RS for demodulating the same, applies the precoding forthe PDSCH of the SU-MIMO to the PDSCH and the UE-specific RS fordemodulating the same by the precoding processors 26 a, 26 b, and 26 cto transmit to the mobile station 10 by the transmission RF unit 210.Herein, note that the UE-specific RS for demodulating the PDSCH and theUE-specific RS for demodulating the EPDCCH might be transmitted by usingdifferent frequency resources according to the physical channel to bedemodulated and the different precodings might be applied thereto.

At S8, the channel estimating unit 13 of the mobile station 10 performschannel estimation based on the above-described UE-specific RS fordemodulating to decode the EPDCCH and the PDSCH.

At S9, the precoding determining unit 24 of the base station 20determines the precoding for the SU-MIMO by using the above-described RIand PMI received in the CSI process #1 at S3 and determines theprecoding for the MU-MIMO and the precoding for the EPDCCH by using theabove-described LI received in the CSI processes #2 and #3 at S4.

At S10, the scheduler unit 21 of the base station 20 performs the userscheduling based on the precoding for the SU-MIMO and the precoding forthe MU-MIMO determined by the precoding determining unit at S9. That isto say, the scheduler unit 21 determines the MIMO format (MU-MIMOapplied to the PDSCH to the mobile station 10.

At S11, the base station 20 applies the precoding for the EPDCCHcalculated from the above-described RI, PMI, and LI to the EPDCCH andthe UE-specific RS for demodulating the same, applies the precoding forthe PDSCH of the MU-MIMO to the PDSCH and the UE-specific RS fordemodulating the same by the precoding processors 26 a, 26 b, and 26 cto transmit to the mobile station 10 by the transmission RF unit 210.

At S12, the channel estimating unit 13 of the mobile station 10 performsthe channel estimation based on the above-described UE-specific RS fordemodulating to decode the EPDCCH and the PDSCH. At that time, themobile station 10 is not aware of the applied precoding.

Hereinafter, a CSI feedback method from the mobile station 10 to thebase station 20 is more specifically described with reference to FIGS. 6to 10.

FIG. 6 is a view for illustrating a process in which the precodingdetermining unit 24 of the base station 20 determines the precodingmatrix for each rank as a subset of the precoding matrix for the PDSCHto which the SU-MIMO is applied. In FIG. 6, M being an integer notsmaller than 2 represents the number of antennas included in the basestation 20. N being an integer not smaller than 2 represents the numberof ranks (layers) of spatial multiplexing. Being integers not largerthan N, j and k represent layer numbers. The radio channel qualitysatisfies layer j>layer k. The precoding determining unit 24 of the basestation 20 selects a precoding vector of the layer with high radiochannel quality from each column vector forming the precoding matrix forthe PDSCH to which the SU-MIMO is applied based on the LI selected bythe mobile station 10. The precoding vector is applied to thetransmission on the PDSCH or the EPDCCH to which the MU-MIMO is applied.

In FIG. 6, each column vector described above is the precoding vectorcorresponding to each of spatially multiplexed layers. For example, theprecoding vector corresponding to the layer j is “w_(j,1), w_(j,2), . .. , w_(j,M)” enclosed by a broken line. As illustrated in FIG. 6, in thetransmission of a transmission rank 1, one precoding vector forms theprecoding matrix for the rank 1. On the other hand, the precoding vectorcorresponding to the layer k is “w_(k,1), w_(k,2), . . . , w_(k,M)”enclosed by a dashed line, for example. As illustrated in FIG. 6, in thetransmission of a transmission rank 2, the two vectors which are thisprecoding vector and the precoding vector corresponding to theabove-described layer j form the precoding matrix for the rank 2.

FIG. 7 is a view for illustrating a process in which the CSI calculatingunit 14 of the mobile station 10 determines the LI based on thetransmission rank and the code word. As described above, the CQI iscalculated in association with the code word being the unit of thecoding bit string regarding the data transmitted on the PDSCH. Eachlayer is associated with any code word. The CSI calculating unit 14 ofthe mobile station 10 first specifies the code word with high qualitybased on the CQI and further selects a spatial layer with excellentreception SINR from the layers belonging to the code word. An identifierof the selected spatial layer becomes the LI to be fed back to the basestation 20. As illustrated in FIG. 7, in a case in which there is noticeof “RI=2” as the transmission rank, for example, a layer 1 belonging toa code word 1 is selected when CQI1≥CQI2 is satisfied, and a layer 2belonging to a code word 2 is selected when CQI1<CQI2 is satisfied. In acase in which there is the notice of “RI=6” as the transmission rank,for example, the layer with the highest reception SINR (for example,layer 1) from the layers 1 to 3 belonging to the code word 1 is selectedwhen CQI1 CQI2 is satisfied. Furthermore, in a case in which there isthe notice of “RI=8” as the transmission rank, for example, the layerwith the highest reception SINR (for example, layer 5) from the layers 5to 8 belonging to the code word 2 is selected when CQI1<CQI2 issatisfied.

FIG. 8 is a view illustrating the number of bits of the LI for eachtransmission rank. As illustrated in FIG. 8, the necessity of the LIdepends on a recommended rank assuming the SU-MIMO. Therefore, thecontrol signal generating unit 17 of the mobile station 10 mayefficiently transmit the control information by switching the number ofbits of the LI according to the RI fed back to the base station 20. InFIG. 8, when the transmission rank is rank 3 or 4, for example, themobile station 10 selects one layer from two (=2 to the first power)layers, so that the number of bits of the LI is set to one. When thetransmission rank is rank 5 to 8, for example, the mobile station 10selects one layer from four (=2 to the second power) layers, so that thenumber of bits of the LI is set to two.

FIG. 9 is a view illustrating the control information for precodingaccording to the embodiment for each CSI process. As illustrated in FIG.9, the mobile station 10 transmits a recommended PMI of the recommendedrank for the SU-MIMO to the base station 20 as the control informationfor precoding as in the conventional case in the CSI process #1. On theother hand, in the CSI process #2, the mobile station 10 transmits theLI of the layer with the most excellent reception SINR to the basestation 20 as the control information for precoding. According to this,the number of bits of the control information in the CSI process #2 isreduced from conventional four bits to two bits. Similarly, in the CSIprocess #3, the mobile station 10 transmits the LI of the layer with thesecond most excellent reception SINR to the base station 20 as thecontrol information for precoding. According to this, the number of bitsof the control information in the CSI process #3 also is reduced fromconventional four bits to two bits. Alternatively, the LI transmitted tothe base station 20 in the CSI process #3 may correspond to the layerselected such that a communication capacity of the rank 2 transmissionis the maximum. That is to say, when selecting two column vectors forgenerating the precoding matrix for the rank 2 from the precoding matrixcorresponding to the recommended PMI for the SU-MIMO, a first columnvector may be the column vector corresponding to the LI transmitted inthe CSI process #2 and a second column vector may be the column vectorwith the maximum communication capacity when combined with the columnvector corresponding to the CSI process #2.

The base station 20 determines the precoding matrix of the transmissionrank 1 by using the control information (LI) received from the mobilestation 10 in the CSI process #2. The base station 20 determines theprecoding matrix of the transmission rank 2 by using the controlinformation (LI) received from the mobile station 10 in the CSI process#3. In this manner, the base station 20 may determine the precodingmatrix by receiving not the precoding matrix itself but only the LI. Asa result, the control information may be efficientlytransmitted/received.

As described above, the mobile station 10 performs the radiocommunication using the spatial multiplexing with the base station 20.The mobile station 10 includes the CSI calculating unit 14 and thetransmission RF unit 19. The CSI calculating unit 14 selects a data unitwith the highest channel quality (for example, CQI) from a plurality ofdata units (code words 1 and 2 in FIG. 7) and selects the spatial layerwith the highest reception quality (for example, SINR) from the spatiallayers belonging to the data unit. The transmission RF unit 19 transmitsidentification information (for example, LI) of the spatial layerselected by the CSI calculating unit 14 to the base station 20 as thecontrol information.

In the mobile station 10, the transmission RF unit 19 may transmitspatial coding information (for example, RI and PMI illustrated at S3 inFIG. 5) corresponding to the number of spatial layers recommended in theabove-described spatial multiplexing to the base station 20 as firstchannel state information (for example, CSI process #1). Thereafter, thetransmission RF unit 19 may transmit the identification information (forexample, LI illustrated at S4 in FIG. 5) of the spatial layer with thehighest reception quality (for example, SINR) described above to thebase station 20 as second channel state information (for example, CSIprocess #2).

In the mobile station 10, the transmission RF unit 19 may transmit theidentification information (for example, LI illustrated at S4 in FIG. 5)of the spatial layer with the second highest reception quality (forexample, SINR) described above to the base station 20 as third channelstate information (for example, CSI process #3) subsequent to theabove-described second channel state information.

On the other hand, the base station 20 performs the radio communicationusing the spatial multiplexing with the mobile station 10. The basestation 20 includes the reception RF unit 211, the precoding determiningunit 24, and the precoding processors 26 a, 26 b, and 26 c. Thereception RF unit 211 receives the identification information (forexample, LI) of the spatial layer with the highest reception quality(for example, SINR) from the mobile station 10. The above-describedspatial layer is selected, after the data unit with the highest channelquality (for example, CQI) is selected from a plurality of data units(for example, code words 1 and 2), from the spatial layers belonging tothe data unit in the mobile station 10. The precoding determining unit24 determines the spatial coding information (for example, precodingmatrix) by using the identification information of the spatial layerdescribed above received by the reception RF unit 211. The precodingprocessors 26 a, 26 b, and 26 c execute the above-described spatialmultiplexing based on the spatial coding information determined by theprecoding determining unit 24.

Specifically, the mobile station 10 performs the channel estimation byusing the CSI-RS to obtain a matrix H indicating the channel distortionin the MIMO channel between the mobile station 10 and the base station20 when determining the above-described LI. The mobile station 10estimates thermal noise and power of interference from dispersion of thechannel estimation value.

Next, the mobile station 10 selects the rank and the precoding matrixwith the largest communication capacity from all candidates of the rankand the precoding matrices as the rank and the precoding matrix for theSU-MIMO. That is to say, the CSI calculating unit 14 estimates receivedpower of each layer by multiplication of the precoding matrix, a channelmatrix, and a reception antenna weight matrix and divides the receivedpower by the thermal noise and the power of interference, therebyestimating the reception SINR of each layer. Furthermore, the CSIcalculating unit 14 specifies a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) ofeach code word by averaging the estimated reception SINR to calculatethe reception SINR of each code word. Then, the CSI calculating unit 14estimates the communication capacity by adding corresponding expectedthroughput between the layers.

Thereafter, the mobile station 10 obtains the CQI from the receptionSINR of each code word when the rank and the precoding matrix for theSU-MIMO are applied. The mobile station 10 selects the layer with thehigh reception SINR (for example, top one or two) from the code wordwith the highest CQI and reports the identifier of the layer to the basestation 20 by the LI.

According to this, the mobile station 10 may report the channel state(CSI feedback) to the base station 20 with small control information. Asa result, closed-loop precoding suitable for each MIMO format (forexample, SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO) and each physical channel (for example,PDSCH and EPDCCH) may be realized with smaller overhead of the controlinformation.

(Variation)

A mobile station 10 feeds back an LI of a layer with an excellentreception SINR from a code word with a higher CQI in the above-describedembodiment. However, the CQI is an indicator indicating average channelquality in the code word, so that the layer having the most excellentreception SINR in all the code words does not always belong to the codeword with the higher CQI. Therefore, a CSI calculating unit 14 of themobile station 10 may select the layer having the most excellentreception SINR from all the code words regardless of whether the CQI ishigh.

FIG. 10 is a view illustrating control information for precodingaccording to a variation for each CSI process. As illustrated in FIG.10, the mobile station 10 transmits a recommended PMI of a recommendedrank for SU-MIMO to a base station 20 as the control information forprecoding as in the conventional case in a CSI process *1. On the otherhand, in a CSI process *2, the mobile station 10 transmits the LI of thelayer with the most excellent reception SINR and a number of the codeword to which the layer belongs to the base station 20 as the controlinformation for precoding. According to this, the number of bits of thecontrol information in the CSI process #2 is reduced from conventionalfour bits to three (=two+one) bits. Similarly, in a CSI process #3, themobile station 10 transmits the LI of the layer with the second mostexcellent reception SINR and the number of the code word to which thelayer belongs to the base station 20 as the control information forprecoding. According to this, the number of bits of the controlinformation in the CSI process #3 also is reduced from conventional fourbits to three (=two+one) bits.

In such an aspect, the CSI calculating unit 14 of the mobile station 10selects a spatial layer with the highest reception quality (for example,SINR) from all the spatial layers belonging to a plurality of data units(code words 1 and 2 in FIG. 7) described above. A transmission RF unit19 of the mobile station 10 transmits identification information (forexample, code word 1) of the data unit to which the above-describedspatial layer belongs together with the identification information (forexample, LI) of the spatial layer selected by the CSI calculating unit14 to the base station 20 as the control information. That is to say,the mobile station 10 feeds back, in addition to the LI of the selectedlayer, the number of the code word (for example, code word 1 in FIG. 7)to which the layer belongs to the base station 20. Therefore, the numberof bits of the control information transmitted/received in the CSIprocesses #2 and #3 increases from two bits in the above-describedembodiment (refer to FIG. 9) to three bits, but data transmission withthe layer with higher quality becomes possible.

Meanwhile, the EPDCCH and the PDSCH are illustrated as the physicalchannel to which the precoding is applied in the above-describedembodiment and variation. However, the EPDCCH may also be anotherchannel for control such as a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH),a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) and the like, forexample. The PDSCH may also be another channel for data.

The CSI calculating unit 14 of the mobile station 10 refers to the CQIvalue as the indicator indicating the channel quality when selecting thecode word in the above-described embodiment and variation. However, theCSI calculating unit 14 may also refer to a received signal strengthindication (RSSI) value indicating radio wave strength, or a signal tointerference ratio (SIR) value and the SINR value indicating a radiowave state in place of the CQI value.

Furthermore, the CSI calculating unit 14 of the mobile station 10 refersto the SINR value as the indicator indicating the reception quality whenselecting the spatial layer in the above-described embodiment andvariation. However, the CSI calculating unit 14 may refer to the SIRvalue or the RSSI value indicating the radio wave strength in place ofthe SINR value.

According to one aspect of a mobile station disclosed in the presentapplication, report of a channel state from the mobile station to a basestation may be realized using small control information.

All examples and conditional language provided herein are intended forthe pedagogical purposes of aiding the reader in understanding theinvention and the concepts contributed by the inventor to further theart, and are not to be construed as limitations to such specificallyrecited examples and conditions, nor does the organization of suchexamples in the specification relate to a showing of the superiority andinferiority of the invention. Although one or more embodiments of thepresent invention have been described in detail, it should be understoodthat the various changes, substitutions, and alterations could be madehereto without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. A mobile station configured to perform radiocommunication using spatial multiplexing with a base station, the mobilestation comprising: a controller configured to select a data unit withhighest channel quality, and to select a spatial layer with highestreception quality belonging to the selected data unit; and a transmitterconfigured to transmit spatial coding information and firstidentification information to the base station, the spatial codinginformation corresponding to the number of spatial layers, and the firstidentification information identifying the spatial layer selected, and alayer indicator to determine a precoding matrix, wherein the basestation determines the precoding matrix by receiving not the precodingmatrix itself but only the layer indicator.
 2. The mobile stationaccording to claim 1, wherein the controller selects the spatial layerwith the highest reception quality from the spatial layers belonging toa plurality of data units, and the transmitter transmits, together withthe first identification information, second identification informationof the data unit to which the spatial layer belongs, to the basestation.
 3. The mobile station according to claim 1, wherein the spatialcoding information is first channel state information, and the firstidentification information is second channel state information.
 4. Themobile station according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter transmitsthe first identification information of the spatial layer with a secondhighest reception quality to the base station as third channel stateinformation subsequent to second channel state information.
 5. Themobile station according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter transmitsthe first identification information after transmitting the spatialcoding information.
 6. The mobile station according to claim 1, whereinthe controller selects the data unit with highest channel quality from aplurality of data units, and selects the spatial layer with highestreception quality from a plurality of spatial layers belonging to theselected data unit with the highest channel quality.
 7. A base stationconfigured to perform radio communication using spatial multiplexingwith a mobile station, the base station comprising: a transmitterconfigured to transmit a reference signal to the mobile station; and areceiver configured to receive spatial coding information andidentification information from the mobile station that received thereference signal, the spatial coding information corresponding to thenumber of spatial layers, and the identification information identifyinga spatial layer with highest reception quality belonging to selecteddata unit by the mobile station, and a layer indicator to determine aprecoding matrix, wherein the base station determines the precodingmatrix by receiving not the precoding matrix itself but only the layerindicator.
 8. The base station according to claim 7, wherein thetransmitter transmits the identification information after transmittingthe spatial coding information.
 9. The base station according to claim7, further comprising a controller configured to control the spatialmultiplexing according to the identification information.
 10. The basestation according to claim 9, wherein the controller determines thespatial coding information by using the identification information, andexecutes the spatial multiplexing based on the spatial codinginformation determined.
 11. A communication system comprising: a mobilestation; and a base station configured to perform radio communicationusing spatial multiplexing with a mobile station, wherein the mobilestation includes: a controller configured to select a data unit withhighest channel quality, and to select a spatial layer with highestreception quality belonging to the selected data unit; and a transmitterconfigured to transmit spatial coding information and identificationinformation to the base station, the spatial coding informationcorresponding to the number of spatial layers, and the identificationinformation identifying the spatial layer selected, and a layerindicator to determine a precoding matrix, the base station includes: areceiver configured to receive the spatial coding information and theidentification information, wherein the base station determines theprecoding matrix by receiving not the precoding matrix itself but onlythe layer indicator.